wedged
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Wedge \Wedge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wedged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Wedging}.]
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1. To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a
wedge; to rive. "My heart, as wedged with a sigh, would
rive in twain." --Shak.
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2. To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
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Among the crowd in the abbey where a finger
Could not be wedged in more. --Shak.
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He 's just the sort of man to wedge himself into a
snug berth. --Mrs. J. H.
Ewing.
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3. To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to
wedge one's way. --Milton.
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4. To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a
wedge that is driven into something.
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Wedged in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast.
--Dryden.
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5. To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a
scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber
in its place.
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6. (Pottery) To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work
by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
--Tomlinson.
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from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
wedged
adj.
1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help. This is
different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has
become totally non-functioning. If the system is wedged, it is trying
to do something but cannot make progress; it may be capable of doing a
few things, but not be fully operational. For example, a process may
become wedged if it {deadlock}s with another (but not all instances of
wedging are deadlocks). See also {gronk}, {locked up}, {hosed}, {hung}
(wedged is more severe than {hung}).
2. Often refers to humans suffering misconceptions. "He's totally
wedged -- he's convinced that he can levitate through meditation."
3. [Unix] Specifically used to describe the state of a TTY left in a
losing state by abort of a screen-oriented program or one that has
messed with the line discipline in some obscure way.
There is some dispute over the origin of this term. It is usually
thought to derive from a common description of recto-cranial
inversion; however, it may actually have originated with older
`hot-press' printing technology in which physical type elements were
locked into type frames with wedges driven in by mallets. Once this
had been done, no changes in the typesetting for that page could be
made.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
wedged
1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help. This is
different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it
has become totally non-functioning. If the system is wedged,
it is trying to do something but cannot make progress; it may
be capable of doing a few things, but not be fully
operational. For example, a process may become wedged if it
{deadlocks} with another (but not all instances of wedging are
deadlocks). See also {gronk}, {locked up}, {hosed}. 2. Often
refers to humans suffering misconceptions. "He's totally
wedged - he's convinced that he can levitate through
meditation." 3. [Unix] Specifically used to describe the
state of a TTY left in a losing state by abort of a
screen-oriented program or one that has messed with the line
discipline in some obscure way.
There is some dispute over the origin of this term. It is
usually thought to derive from a common description of
recto-cranial inversion; however, it may actually have
originated with older "hot-press" printing technology in which
physical type elements were locked into type frames with
wedges driven in by mallets. Once this had been done, no
changes in the typesetting for that page could be made.
[{Jargon File}]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "wedged":
aground, anchored, bonded, caught, cemented, chained, close, fast,
fastened, firm, fixed, glued, grounded, held, high and dry,
impacted, inextricable, jammed, moored, packed, secure, set,
stranded, stuck, stuck fast, taped, tethered, tied, tight,
transfixed
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